Thursday is Over!

One more day is over, we are tired but encouraged by how much the Lord has touched lives both on our team and in the people of San Diego.  We are all excited to head home tomorrow and tell you all about it!  One more time, here are some reflections of a student.

This is my third time attending ZOOM, and it has definitely been my favorite so far. San Diego; beach, buildings, and the scorching hot sun beaming down on all of us. Now I don't know about the others, but I came into this trip with a certain mindset: this can't move me or connect me with god as well as the past years did. But of course, It was quite the opposite. This trip's theme was overcoming the so called "Fear of Man." This, as explained and demonstrated in the bible, is basically fear of being rejected, embarrassed, and flat out losing everything, including your dignity. This is a fear we all share as humans, whether we choose to admit it or deny it. But with this fear comes cravings. Cravings for comfort, for food, for friends, and for that new Flat Screen TV.

This trip exposed the "Fear of Man" in almost all of us. Our first task was to visit the poor residents of two hotels, the Plaza and the Dustin Arms Hotel. These two hotels share one Job: To take the homeless, alcoholics, and drug addicts off the street, and give them a home and a nice warm bed. Our job was to split up into six groups, and cover all of the apartments in the buildings, providing them with Vitamin waters, tickets for free meals, and an invitation to an Easter service here at the Horizon Park Chapel. This required us to knock on random doors and talk to strangers. This exposed our "Fear of Man," because it was hard for all of us to rap our knuckles on a door with the fear of rejection.
       -Kurt Songer